By BigRed
Shot entirely with Lumix G gear using volunteers recruited from my friends on Facebook (all permissions granted by them for this material to be publically shown and reproduced). People, in all their glorious variety, are my main subject when it comes to shooting stills. So it shouldn't be a surprise that this entirely original (including soundtrack) movie has them at its heart. All comments and criticisms welcome. Enjoy! John (aka BigRed)
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Tech note: that’s my eye at the very end. To get the shot I slapped a Raynox 250 macro add-on adaptor to the X45-175 power zoom lens and engaged ex tele conv mode in the video menu. My G5 was tripod mounted with the vari-angle screen turned so I could see it with that eye. It still took quite a while to get my head at exactly the right distance (practically zero DoF) and steady enough to capture a single, sharp blink. The things we’ll do for art lol.
Although it was the competition (particularly the chance to win the Leica Noctilux lens) that made me pull my finger out and put this together it’s not really a stand alone piece (although I think it works as one). Plans are afoot to add more ‘episodes’ over the coming year. My thanks to everyone who took part and gave their time freely to make this little art movie possible 🙂
PS: Adam and Emma have never met outside of Facebook – that’s movies for you 😉
This is absolutely brilliant, John. I seldom, if ever, comment on videos. But this one demanded a comment. It’s excitingly different, creative and sensitive. Congratulations on a piece of really good work.
Many thanks for your kind comment Don 🙂
Many years ago, in a galaxy far, far away (it sometimes feels) I studied ‘film’ at art college and collaborated in some short movies. Ever since I’ve had an itch to make a movie or two that were purely audio-visual experiences with a ‘story’ that was largely in the mind of the viewer as distinct from music videos, documentaries, reportage etc.
Body Wurkz Part 1 is my first real attempt to do so since then. It took two days to shoot and record (all on a shoe string – you don’t really need much in the way of locations and props to tell a ‘story’; just good people who want to be part of it) and another five days of intensive work to edit and assemble – I was taught that, camera work aside, the editing process is the heart of movie making. I’m glad some people appreciate it (it’s doing rather well on YouTube) and that Panasonic didn’t reject it from the contest on the grounds of what some may consider ‘unusual’ content for an ‘amateur’ piece 😉
More will follow in 2015 – the great thing is that we all have the technical capability to do this now 🙂
Sincerely,
John
That one hits hard, yes!
Quite a poetic video, and very imaginative. You must of spent some time on a storyboard. Brilliant video.